January 28, 2025 GRAPH: Mining vs AI vs Deepseek Cheap and cheerful Chinese AI does little to unskew relative valuation of one chipmaker against the entire mining industry.
January 28, 2025 Liberia anticipates new minerals discovery will draw $3 billion Studies conducted over five decades and funded by the Chinese show the iron ore exporter also has uranium, lithium, cobalt, manganese and neodymium deposits.
January 28, 2025 Congo rebel gains to boost illicit mineral trade through Rwanda, analysts say M23 insurgent group entered eastern Congo's largest city this week.
January 27, 2025 GRAPH: What global copper mining’s top tier could look like The Rio Tinto-Glencore merger appears stalled and a BHP-Anglo American tie-up is indefinitely postponed, but copper mining is already top heavy.
January 27, 2025 Premium Resources hits significant grade at Selebi North in Botswana The Selebi North mine, 410 km north of the nation’s capital Gaborone, opened in 1990 and operated for 26 years.
January 27, 2025 Cobalt price at lowest since 2016 amid record production China’s CMOC set a new production record last year and plans to maintain similar output levels through 2025.
January 23, 2025 World’s No. 1 cobalt miner sees 2025 output approaching record CMOC gave output guidance at 100,000 to 120,000 tons of cobalt, after producing 114,165 tons in 2024.
January 21, 2025 Trump’s EV rollback not expected to suppress appetite for critical minerals Trump on Tuesday revoked predecessor Joe Biden's 2021 executive order that sought to ensure half of all new vehicles sold in the US by 2030 are electric.
January 21, 2025 Chile seeks projects to extract cobalt and rare earths from mining waste The country's development agency is offering $3-$4m over three years for studies on extracting cobalt and rare earths from tailings.
January 16, 2025 Rio Tinto and Glencore discussed potential merger A $160 billion Rio Tinto-Glencore combination makes sense in a copper-centric world, but we've been here before.
Vale, Caterpillar and Sotreq sign deal to expand fleet of autonomous trucks in Pará, Brazil New agreement expands fleet to approximately 90 autonomous trucks in the region by 2028. December 16, 2025 | 01:52 pm
